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The notebook is not present at the moment, but I noticed the wmpnetwk.exe is running all the time and is using 50% of CPU time, which slows other things down. The only way I can find to reduce this CPU usage is to turn off all sharing on both boots.
The modem is a NetComm NB6 and the router a Dlink DI 524

-Change the windows indexing, if you it doesn't work you can always change it back, so that there are only small directories being indexed. Click the Start orb and type "indexing options", click "Modify" and uncheck everything. Click "OK" and "OK" again.

-Change the Windows Media Player indexing options so that there is nothing as low as one directory above the system drive (normally C. Open Windows Media Player and click "File", click "Manage Libraries". Click each option to the right and follow the advice in the first sentence of this paragraph.

To check, start Task Manager and click on "Processes" tab, click "Show processess from all users" at the bottom, click the column heading "Memory" twice. Look for "wmpnetwrk.exe" and see if it's using an excessive amount of memory.

wmpnetwk gets 50% of CPU

Problem with wmpnetwk.exeRecently I have experienced WMP running this wmpnetwk.exe.About 4 min. or so after booting it starts and uses 85% of ram and high processor usage.I have turned off all network sharing(I think) with no effect.I had to disable the service to get it to stop. I even restored to before the problem began...

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wmpnetwk.exe still causing problemsI set up a connection with windows media center and my xbox 360 on the same network. I saw that it was hogging my system resources so i cut the connection and stopped the process. but microsoft has other plans. no matter how many times i stop the executable file wmpnetwk, it keeps coming back and...

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Folder locked by wmpnetwk.exeI have a folder on an external hard drive that is locked by wmpnetwk.exe. I cannot unlock it with Lock Hunter as "The processes are still locking it". I have searched for an answer and the only advice I can find is "Don't' delete wmpnetwk.exe as it is required by the OS. I now can't add any new sub...

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wmpnetwk.exeIts eating up my resources and i cant stop it, i tried end task but it just comes back again, tried turning off stream sharing in wmp and its turned off in adv sharing settings. How can i stop this from tuning on tho i dont want to make it to much of a hassle because i like using it but when i...

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What's the Deal with WMPnetwk.exe?Only happened today. My fans started going at 100% when I wasn't at the computer. Had a look in resource monitor & saw that wmpnetwk.exe was using over 20% of the cpu.
Didn't know what was going on so I rebooted. WMP started up again. This time I terminated it at the resource monitor. After a...